Salgado Maranhao, winner of all of Brazil's major poetry awards, has toured the United States five times, presenting his work at over one hundred universities. In addition to fourteen books of poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil’s leading jazz and pop musicians. Four collections of his work have appeared in English: Blood of the Sun (Milkweed Editions, 2012), Tiger Fur (White Pine Press, 2015), Palavora (Dialogos Books, 2019), and Mapping the Tribe (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021). Consecration of the Wolves is forthcoming from Bitter Oleander Press.